CONVERSATIONS
ON AFRICA (COA)

CONVERSATIONS ON AFRICA (COA) is an ongoing monthly public forum that takes place in many different locations around the world.

COA meets every second Saturday, 5pm to 8pm. We focus on the African public interest values listed below or here. We ask you to support our activities that will result in peaceful, creative, and innovative changes to conditions in Africa.

COAForum Loans™ provides grants for micro loan startups in villages in Africa. For more on that, go here.

This year, 2009, COA is hosting its Annual Africa Unite Now Festival. For more on that, please go here.

COA is a clearing house for numerous ideas, strategies, action plans developed by others. COA teams up with others to implement core African public interest values through peaceful, legal, and lawful activities.

You are invited to attend a COA Forum in your area. Contact us here for details.

Conversations On Africa is not: a debating society, a discussion forum, or a think tank. Others have done that. We implement their ideas by mobilizing activities and actions to produce results.  

We welcome your ideas, suggestions, recommendations.
 
Some Substantive African Public Interest Values of COA  

• Substantive and accountable multi-party democracy
• Established rule of law
• Independent judiciary
• Free press and freedom of speech
• Development of effective political opposition parties
• Free and fair general elections
• Protection of minority rights
• Freedom of religion
• Equal rights
• Empowerment and social justice for women
• Protection and advancement of human rights
• Songhai Federal Republics
• Annual Africa Unite Now Festival
• Economic integration and political unification
• African political identity for all individuals born in Africa
• Genocide prevention and intervention
• Public safety
• Elimination of child soldiers and laborers
• Elimination of slavery